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Promise Ultra66

Hi there. I bought a Promise Ultra66 card for my PC. I want to be able to boot my system from it. The question is:

will i have to reinstall win98 on it for the PC to boot correctly?
I have tried booting another system (abit bh6 with P2@233)from that card, but, everytime i get stuck.

i have a scsi card on that pc with a yamaha 4x4x16 cdrw, a modem, isa video card, 64mb of ram and a sound card (from an HP8370 model). could someone tell me if i really have to install the O.S back on the hard drive if i want to boot from the card?

i am reinstalling win98 on that hard drive on the other PC just to see if it would work or not. anyways, i want to put that card in my current system (athlon@800).

you shouldn't have to format and reinstall win98. windows should recognize the hardware (card) as any other hardware you would install. one thing you might want to do is load the software (promise 66) first then put the card in.

1. before installing the promise ultra66 in my other pc, i should load the drivers onto the hard drive.

2. then install the card

3. should i do that next?
a. put hard drive on the ultra66
b. or leave it on the motherboard -&gt; boot the pc -&gt; shut down -&gt; plug hard drive on the utra66 -&gt; reboot. will everything be okay like that or should i just go for option 3.a ? thanks for the help

I think I had to set my bios to boot from SCSI to get the Ultra/66 to be the boot controller. Of course, an existing SCSI card will complicate that. Moving the card to a lower numbered PCI slot than the SCSI may give it precedence, depending on your mainboard's design.

I didn't have to re-install an existing dual-boot WinNT4/Win95B setup, and a subsequent install of Windows 2000 went off without a hitch.

I've got the same controller but I'm not using it because it didn't improve a thing. I doubt its even an independent controller.

Another intersting point is the hardware hack for the controller to turn it into a raid controller... and it works, but if you do it you will need to flash the cards bios with a dummy bios first then the raid bios